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Hey all,
Just a quick update on some of the changes merged to 'main' for fvwm's wayland equivalent (cow):
https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow
* New rule command syntax -- the old rule command is gone, replaced with something which now operates on events. Think of it like #FvwmEvent once was.
* cow(1) manpage rewrite: I've tried to clarify a few things, add additional context, and split things into sections. I suspect this will be a work in progress, but for now I think it's OK.
* New command, 'scroll', which replaces the previous 'page' command. Scroll is sort of similar to fvwm's scroll command -- you can now pan around the pages using the mouse. So-called "scrollable" WMs, take note -- fvwm's had this functionality for decades, it's nothing new!
* Bug-fixes, improvements, etc.
Any questions, join #cow-wayland on irc.libera.chat
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Oh man, yeah. I never put anything in {,/usr}/{,s}bin except the occasional symlink.
I want to try a pure "just use base" install of #OpenBSD sometime. ;)
cwm is kinda neat, a wee bit reminiscent of #dwm or #rio, but definitely on the mousey side.
The default theme of the version of #fvwm they ship is kinda too colorful, but I'm sure it's extremely configurable... if I can only learn the rather elaborate config setup for it.
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Oh man, yeah. I never put anything in {,/usr}/{,s}bin except the occasional symlink.
I want to try a pure "just use base" install of #OpenBSD sometime. ;)
cwm is kinda neat, a wee bit reminiscent of #dwm or #rio, but definitely on the mousey side.
The default theme of the version of #fvwm they ship is kinda too colorful, but I'm sure it's extremely configurable... if I can only learn the rather elaborate config setup for it.
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Oh man, yeah. I never put anything in {,/usr}/{,s}bin except the occasional symlink.
I want to try a pure "just use base" install of #OpenBSD sometime. ;)
cwm is kinda neat, a wee bit reminiscent of #dwm or #rio, but definitely on the mousey side.
The default theme of the version of #fvwm they ship is kinda too colorful, but I'm sure it's extremely configurable... if I can only learn the rather elaborate config setup for it.
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Oh man, yeah. I never put anything in {,/usr}/{,s}bin except the occasional symlink.
I want to try a pure "just use base" install of #OpenBSD sometime. ;)
cwm is kinda neat, a wee bit reminiscent of #dwm or #rio, but definitely on the mousey side.
The default theme of the version of #fvwm they ship is kinda too colorful, but I'm sure it's extremely configurable... if I can only learn the rather elaborate config setup for it.
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Oh man, yeah. I never put anything in {,/usr}/{,s}bin except the occasional symlink.
I want to try a pure "just use base" install of #OpenBSD sometime. ;)
cwm is kinda neat, a wee bit reminiscent of #dwm or #rio, but definitely on the mousey side.
The default theme of the version of #fvwm they ship is kinda too colorful, but I'm sure it's extremely configurable... if I can only learn the rather elaborate config setup for it.
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CoW has now gained a new "module" -- cowident.
The image below shows what it does. When you run it, it will force you to select a window to then report properties on.
It's analogous to FvwmIdent from #fvwm3
Not the sexiest thing in the world, I know, but maybe useful both for those tweaking their config, and for diagnostic purposes.
That's why #FvwmIdent was created -- to allow for diagnostics.
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CoW has now gained a new "module" -- cowident.
The image below shows what it does. When you run it, it will force you to select a window to then report properties on.
It's analogous to FvwmIdent from #fvwm3
Not the sexiest thing in the world, I know, but maybe useful both for those tweaking their config, and for diagnostic purposes.
That's why #FvwmIdent was created -- to allow for diagnostics.
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CoW has now gained a new "module" -- cowident.
The image below shows what it does. When you run it, it will force you to select a window to then report properties on.
It's analogous to FvwmIdent from #fvwm3
Not the sexiest thing in the world, I know, but maybe useful both for those tweaking their config, and for diagnostic purposes.
That's why #FvwmIdent was created -- to allow for diagnostics.
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CoW has now gained a new "module" -- cowident.
The image below shows what it does. When you run it, it will force you to select a window to then report properties on.
It's analogous to FvwmIdent from #fvwm3
Not the sexiest thing in the world, I know, but maybe useful both for those tweaking their config, and for diagnostic purposes.
That's why #FvwmIdent was created -- to allow for diagnostics.
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CoW has now gained a new "module" -- cowident.
The image below shows what it does. When you run it, it will force you to select a window to then report properties on.
It's analogous to FvwmIdent from #fvwm3
Not the sexiest thing in the world, I know, but maybe useful both for those tweaking their config, and for diagnostic purposes.
That's why #FvwmIdent was created -- to allow for diagnostics.
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i love posting inflammatory takes on window managers and desktop environments on tumblr.com. a lot of shitting on tiling window managers and shilling #fvwm and #rio
i do unironically really enjoy those desktops too and i actually dont like tiling window managers. probably comes from my distaste for #arch and arch subsidiaries. if you want a diy system just install #gentoo or #lfs
my hatred for arch is only a little embellished.
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i love posting inflammatory takes on window managers and desktop environments on tumblr.com. a lot of shitting on tiling window managers and shilling #fvwm and #rio
i do unironically really enjoy those desktops too and i actually dont like tiling window managers. probably comes from my distaste for #arch and arch subsidiaries. if you want a diy system just install #gentoo or #lfs
my hatred for arch is only a little embellished.
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Currently working on squeeze titlebars.
This is something which some people wanted in fvwm, and it actually comes from #ctwm, whereby the titlebar was squeezed to its length so it didn't take up the whole width of the window.
Wayland doesn't have any shape support (a la XShape extension) so doing this manually is tricky.
Anyway, screenshot attached of what squeezed titlebars will look like in CoW. Options for left, centre, or right aligned.
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Currently working on squeeze titlebars.
This is something which some people wanted in fvwm, and it actually comes from #ctwm, whereby the titlebar was squeezed to its length so it didn't take up the whole width of the window.
Wayland doesn't have any shape support (a la XShape extension) so doing this manually is tricky.
Anyway, screenshot attached of what squeezed titlebars will look like in CoW. Options for left, centre, or right aligned.
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Currently working on squeeze titlebars.
This is something which some people wanted in fvwm, and it actually comes from #ctwm, whereby the titlebar was squeezed to its length so it didn't take up the whole width of the window.
Wayland doesn't have any shape support (a la XShape extension) so doing this manually is tricky.
Anyway, screenshot attached of what squeezed titlebars will look like in CoW. Options for left, centre, or right aligned.
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Currently working on squeeze titlebars.
This is something which some people wanted in fvwm, and it actually comes from #ctwm, whereby the titlebar was squeezed to its length so it didn't take up the whole width of the window.
Wayland doesn't have any shape support (a la XShape extension) so doing this manually is tricky.
Anyway, screenshot attached of what squeezed titlebars will look like in CoW. Options for left, centre, or right aligned.
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Currently working on squeeze titlebars.
This is something which some people wanted in fvwm, and it actually comes from #ctwm, whereby the titlebar was squeezed to its length so it didn't take up the whole width of the window.
Wayland doesn't have any shape support (a la XShape extension) so doing this manually is tricky.
Anyway, screenshot attached of what squeezed titlebars will look like in CoW. Options for left, centre, or right aligned.
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@thomasadam I would love to try it out as I'm a big fan of #fvwm as well. Unfortunately I'm on Debian stable so it would be a lot of effort to compile everything...
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@thomasadam I would love to try it out as I'm a big fan of #fvwm as well. Unfortunately I'm on Debian stable so it would be a lot of effort to compile everything...
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@thomasadam I would love to try it out as I'm a big fan of #fvwm as well. Unfortunately I'm on Debian stable so it would be a lot of effort to compile everything...
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@thomasadam I would love to try it out as I'm a big fan of #fvwm as well. Unfortunately I'm on Debian stable so it would be a lot of effort to compile everything...
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@thomasadam I would love to try it out as I'm a big fan of #fvwm as well. Unfortunately I'm on Debian stable so it would be a lot of effort to compile everything...
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In 2003, fvwm launched a logo competition:
http://www.fvwm.org/fvwm-ml/10502.html
This was to coincide with fvwm's tenth birthday.
Several suggestions were put forward, as is archived here:
https://www.fvwm.org/Archive/Logos/
This was the winning entry -- there's links from the top of that page to past entries.
I just think it's a lovely piece of window manager history -- and shows the number of users who cared about this.
That was #fvwm in its prime -- alas, not any longer. :)
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In 2003, fvwm launched a logo competition:
http://www.fvwm.org/fvwm-ml/10502.html
This was to coincide with fvwm's tenth birthday.
Several suggestions were put forward, as is archived here:
https://www.fvwm.org/Archive/Logos/
This was the winning entry -- there's links from the top of that page to past entries.
I just think it's a lovely piece of window manager history -- and shows the number of users who cared about this.
That was #fvwm in its prime -- alas, not any longer. :)
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In 2003, fvwm launched a logo competition:
http://www.fvwm.org/fvwm-ml/10502.html
This was to coincide with fvwm's tenth birthday.
Several suggestions were put forward, as is archived here:
https://www.fvwm.org/Archive/Logos/
This was the winning entry -- there's links from the top of that page to past entries.
I just think it's a lovely piece of window manager history -- and shows the number of users who cared about this.
That was #fvwm in its prime -- alas, not any longer. :)
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In 2003, fvwm launched a logo competition:
http://www.fvwm.org/fvwm-ml/10502.html
This was to coincide with fvwm's tenth birthday.
Several suggestions were put forward, as is archived here:
https://www.fvwm.org/Archive/Logos/
This was the winning entry -- there's links from the top of that page to past entries.
I just think it's a lovely piece of window manager history -- and shows the number of users who cared about this.
That was #fvwm in its prime -- alas, not any longer. :)
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In 2003, fvwm launched a logo competition:
http://www.fvwm.org/fvwm-ml/10502.html
This was to coincide with fvwm's tenth birthday.
Several suggestions were put forward, as is archived here:
https://www.fvwm.org/Archive/Logos/
This was the winning entry -- there's links from the top of that page to past entries.
I just think it's a lovely piece of window manager history -- and shows the number of users who cared about this.
That was #fvwm in its prime -- alas, not any longer. :)
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Hey all. For anyone who's following along. I've just merged support for pages in #cow.
This is also accompanied with a pager.
From what testing I've done, this seems to work for me -- no doubt there's bugs.
The example config in the repo shows what you which settings to enable to make pages work.
If you're interested in giving it a go, please do!
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Hey all. For anyone who's following along. I've just merged support for pages in #cow.
This is also accompanied with a pager.
From what testing I've done, this seems to work for me -- no doubt there's bugs.
The example config in the repo shows what you which settings to enable to make pages work.
If you're interested in giving it a go, please do!
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Hey all. For anyone who's following along. I've just merged support for pages in #cow.
This is also accompanied with a pager.
From what testing I've done, this seems to work for me -- no doubt there's bugs.
The example config in the repo shows what you which settings to enable to make pages work.
If you're interested in giving it a go, please do!
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Hey all. For anyone who's following along. I've just merged support for pages in #cow.
This is also accompanied with a pager.
From what testing I've done, this seems to work for me -- no doubt there's bugs.
The example config in the repo shows what you which settings to enable to make pages work.
If you're interested in giving it a go, please do!
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Hey all. For anyone who's following along. I've just merged support for pages in #cow.
This is also accompanied with a pager.
From what testing I've done, this seems to work for me -- no doubt there's bugs.
The example config in the repo shows what you which settings to enable to make pages work.
If you're interested in giving it a go, please do!
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Hello everyone, and Happy Easter!
I've been busy trying to get to this point, and I'm finding it useable enough that I wanted to mention it here.
I'm releasing some code!
cow, is a "Compositor on Wayland", which aims to look-and-feel like mwm and fvwm from X11, but instead, running on wayland.
https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow
The README.md (screenshot), and associated config file example should be enough to get you started for now, if you're interested.
There's still a tonne of things to do before I even consider a release -- and no doubt there's a shed load of bugs, etc.
So if you're interested in using a wayland window manager that looks like it's stuck in the early 90s, give this thing a go.
An IRC channel exists on libera.chat -- #cow-wayland if you want to come and say "hello".
Any issues... err, chuck an issue on Codeberg, please. Note that I won't be providing any mirrors of this on GH. Codeberg is where this project is officially hosted.
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Hello everyone, and Happy Easter!
I've been busy trying to get to this point, and I'm finding it useable enough that I wanted to mention it here.
I'm releasing some code!
cow, is a "Compositor on Wayland", which aims to look-and-feel like mwm and fvwm from X11, but instead, running on wayland.
https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow
The README.md (screenshot), and associated config file example should be enough to get you started for now, if you're interested.
There's still a tonne of things to do before I even consider a release -- and no doubt there's a shed load of bugs, etc.
So if you're interested in using a wayland window manager that looks like it's stuck in the early 90s, give this thing a go.
An IRC channel exists on libera.chat -- #cow-wayland if you want to come and say "hello".
Any issues... err, chuck an issue on Codeberg, please. Note that I won't be providing any mirrors of this on GH. Codeberg is where this project is officially hosted.
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Hello everyone, and Happy Easter!
I've been busy trying to get to this point, and I'm finding it useable enough that I wanted to mention it here.
I'm releasing some code!
cow, is a "Compositor on Wayland", which aims to look-and-feel like mwm and fvwm from X11, but instead, running on wayland.
https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow
The README.md (screenshot), and associated config file example should be enough to get you started for now, if you're interested.
There's still a tonne of things to do before I even consider a release -- and no doubt there's a shed load of bugs, etc.
So if you're interested in using a wayland window manager that looks like it's stuck in the early 90s, give this thing a go.
An IRC channel exists on libera.chat -- #cow-wayland if you want to come and say "hello".
Any issues... err, chuck an issue on Codeberg, please. Note that I won't be providing any mirrors of this on GH. Codeberg is where this project is officially hosted.
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Hello everyone, and Happy Easter!
I've been busy trying to get to this point, and I'm finding it useable enough that I wanted to mention it here.
I'm releasing some code!
cow, is a "Compositor on Wayland", which aims to look-and-feel like mwm and fvwm from X11, but instead, running on wayland.
https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow
The README.md (screenshot), and associated config file example should be enough to get you started for now, if you're interested.
There's still a tonne of things to do before I even consider a release -- and no doubt there's a shed load of bugs, etc.
So if you're interested in using a wayland window manager that looks like it's stuck in the early 90s, give this thing a go.
An IRC channel exists on libera.chat -- #cow-wayland if you want to come and say "hello".
Any issues... err, chuck an issue on Codeberg, please. Note that I won't be providing any mirrors of this on GH. Codeberg is where this project is officially hosted.
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Hello everyone, and Happy Easter!
I've been busy trying to get to this point, and I'm finding it useable enough that I wanted to mention it here.
I'm releasing some code!
cow, is a "Compositor on Wayland", which aims to look-and-feel like mwm and fvwm from X11, but instead, running on wayland.
https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow
The README.md (screenshot), and associated config file example should be enough to get you started for now, if you're interested.
There's still a tonne of things to do before I even consider a release -- and no doubt there's a shed load of bugs, etc.
So if you're interested in using a wayland window manager that looks like it's stuck in the early 90s, give this thing a go.
An IRC channel exists on libera.chat -- #cow-wayland if you want to come and say "hello".
Any issues... err, chuck an issue on Codeberg, please. Note that I won't be providing any mirrors of this on GH. Codeberg is where this project is officially hosted.
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lovely minimalist black-white-gray window arrangement with almost no style of prompts or vim (easily build with #fvwm)
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lovely minimalist black-white-gray window arrangement with almost no style of prompts or vim (easily build with #fvwm)
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lovely minimalist black-white-gray window arrangement with almost no style of prompts or vim (easily build with #fvwm)
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lovely minimalist black-white-gray window arrangement with almost no style of prompts or vim (easily build with #fvwm)
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lovely minimalist black-white-gray window arrangement with almost no style of prompts or vim (easily build with #fvwm)
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another weekend of tweaking #fvwm to my liking (inspired by /r/unixporn which still has some good wm stuff)
found some interesting minimalist gray/black/white styles and an example reviving the whole "desktop bigger than screen" size I used 30 years ago (literally) a lot 😂 https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1rw4e1z/driftwm_infinite_canvas_wayland_compositor_no/
(still undecided in terms of userinterface how and what I want from my prompt, my window titles etc and where to display it all. e.g. starship's language icons are meaningless for me or git state)
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another weekend of tweaking #fvwm to my liking (inspired by /r/unixporn which still has some good wm stuff)
found some interesting minimalist gray/black/white styles and an example reviving the whole "desktop bigger than screen" size I used 30 years ago (literally) a lot 😂 https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1rw4e1z/driftwm_infinite_canvas_wayland_compositor_no/
(still undecided in terms of userinterface how and what I want from my prompt, my window titles etc and where to display it all. e.g. starship's language icons are meaningless for me or git state)